Long ago, Taylor Swift left her teardrops on her guitar. Now, she’s leaving her signature on them — and helping raise money for important causes. On Monday, Toby Keith and Friends revealed that a guitar signed by the singer sold for $120,000 at their 2023 OK Kids Korral auction, which …
Read More »'Past Lives': A Tour of New York City With Greta Lee and Celine Song
G reta Lee is squinting in the sunlight, staring intently at a street corner in the East Village. There’s a look of intense concentration on her face. “Wait, is that…” “Yeah, that’s the corner,” director Celine Song says. “I thought it was!” Lee replies, lighting up. “We’d just finished doing …
Read More »Taylor Swift Asks Fans Not to Cyberbully as She Unearths 'Dear John' for First Time in 11 Years
The “Surprise Songs” portion of Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour delivered perhaps its biggest surprise yet Saturday in Minneapolis as Taylor Swift unearthed “Dear John” for the first time in 11 years. The Speak Now track is, notoriously, a biting ballad allegedly aimed at former flame John Mayer. While Swift …
Read More »Fox Host Claims Biden Admin Is 'Drumming Up the Drama' in Russia to Distract from Hunter Biden
According to Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo, both the Biden administration and mainstream media are working to distract from the Hunter Biden story by “drumming up the drama” happening in Russia by using some kind of wag the dog strategy. Because apparently an attempted coup in a nuclear superpower is not …
Read More »Rina Sawayama Calls Out Labelmate Matty Healy at Glastonbury: 'I've Had Enough'
Rina Sawayamahas hit out at The 1975’s Matty Healy for controversial comments he made on a podcast last February. The singer, who is signed to the same record label as Healy’s band, hit out at The 1975’s frontman while introducing a performance of her song “STFU!” at Glastonbury yesterday evening. …
Read More »Feid Triumphs During Back-to-Back Shows at El Choli in Puerto Rico
Colombian reggaeton star Feid looked out into a crowd of 18,500 people during his second sold-out show at Puerto Rico’s José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum on Friday night. Nearly every person was wearing green, just as he’d asked fans to do, and matching light-up wristbands given out at the entrance. He’d …
Read More »Drake Reveals New Album, 'For All the Dogs,' to Accompany His Poetry Book
Hours after Drake announced he has co-written a poetry book, the rapper has revealed that a new album, For All the Dogs, is also on the way. Drake plastered newspapers like the Los Angeles Times, New York Post, the Houston Chronicle and more Saturday with a full cover advertisement for …
Read More »Inside 'The Bear' Season 2: Damaged Souls, A-List Cameos, and That Finale
This post contains spoilers for Season Two of The Bear, which is now streaming on Hulu. Late in the finale of this extraordinary season of The Bear, Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) runs out to the alley behind the FX dramedy’s eponymous restaurant to puke. She still has PTSD from the incident …
Read More »Boots Riley's Anti-Capitalist Revolution Will Be Televised
When Boots Riley was 12 years old, he wanted to be a superhero. Growing up in the Eighties in East Oakland with a civil rights attorney father, the younger Riley was drawn to a different version of justice. He remembers losing himself in comic books — he loved Daredevil, and …
Read More »The Screen Legend That Inspired Cate Blanchett and Jessica Chastain
The cover of Time magazine once proclaimed Liv Ullmann “Hollywood’s new Nordic star,” a designation that never sat well with the Norwegian actress. She was a committed performer, starring in some of Ingmar Bergman’s greatest films of the Sixties and Seventies. She was an accomplished director, with a résumé that …
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